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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:00:55 -0700 From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> To: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com> Cc: Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>, Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>, kernel-team <kernel-team@...com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com> Subject: Re: Regression: netlink fail (triggered by iw) removes extra wlan (phy) interface On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com> wrote: > Hi, > > After updating kernel in OpenWrt from 4.1.6 to 4.1.10 I noticed that > if "iw" command fails (which happens very rarely) my wlan0-1 interface > disappears. To trigger this problem easily I'm using this trivial > script: > while [ 1 ] > do > iw phy phy0 interface add mon0 type monitor > ifconfig mon0 up > iw dev mon0 del > done > > Whenever it goes wrong I see: > Failed to connect to generic netlink. > kern.info kernel: [ 1933.114338] br-lan: port 3(wlan0-1) entered disabled state > kern.info kernel: [ 1933.335568] device wlan0-1 left promiscuous mode > kern.info kernel: [ 1933.340385] br-lan: port 3(wlan0-1) entered disabled state > daemon.notice netifd: Network device 'wlan0-1' link is down > command failed: Too many open files in system (-23) > Note, for 4.1, the backport is known to be incorrect, and it is fixed later by: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/net/netlink/af_netlink.c?h=linux-4.1.y&id=a52ec6de6d1638e8c203d7188c55627f75371612 > This regression is caused by commit: > 4e27762 netlink: Fix autobind race condition that leads to zero port ID > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4e27762417669cb459971635be550eb7b5598286 > that is a backport of upstream: > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1f770c0a09da855a2b51af6d19de97fb955eca85 > > This still happens with kernel 4.4. Looks like the goto is missing in 4.4 branch too. ;) Mind to send a patch to GregKH? > > My hardware is Linksys WRT160NL (Atheros AR9130 SoC) and I'm using two > __ap interfaces on phy0 (wlan0 and wlan0-1). > > Could you take a look at this? > Is there some additional info I could provide to help fixing this? > > -- > Rafał
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